On 10/04/2013 02:39 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 10/4/2013 12:11 PM, Joseph Hesse wrote: >> security = user > > you'll need to run > > smbpasswd -a admin > > on the samba server, and give the 'admin' SMB user a password. Samba > can't use the unix /etc/password|shadow combination as the hashes used > by SMB aren't compatible. > > I used "smbpasswd "to assign a Samba password to user "admin". My Win7 virtual machine still couldn't see the share. It is my impression that the smb.conf file in the book I am using allows passwordless access to the shares. Also, if it helps, here is some more output. [root at CentOS ~]# smbclient -L localhost -U Enter root's password: Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.6.9-151.el6_4.1] Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- homes Disk Home Directories IPC$ IPC IPC Service (CentOS) Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.6.9-151.el6_4.1] Server Comment --------- ------- CENTOS CentOS WIN7VM Workgroup Master --------- ------- WORKGROUP WIN7VM